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Frontline, The Deal: Trump, Bukele & the Gangs of El Salvador

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US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Nayib Bukele, El Salvador's president, during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, April 14, 2025. Credit: Al Drago for The Washington Post/Getty Images

Frontline, The Deal: Trump, Bukele & the Gangs of El Salvador

PBS Western Reserve (WNEO 45.1 / 49.1)

Tuesday, April 7, at 10 PM
Wednesday, April 8, at 3 AM

Fusion (WNEO 45.2 / 49.2)

Saturday, April 11, at 3 PM

 

The Salvadoran president’s deal with Trump to imprison deportees, and what each stood to gain. With the Salvadoran news outlet El Faro, now reporting from exile, President Nayib Bukele’s tangled history with the gangs the U.S. says it is fighting.

 

Stream FRONTLINE.

 

Photo: US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Nayib Bukele, El Salvador's president, during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, April 14, 2025. Credit: Al Drago for The Washington Post/Getty Images